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Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

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Fall, Odds, Long

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

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Example, Debt, Littles

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

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Ignorant, Doe, Want
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.94, Penguin

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

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Book, Men, Rising Up

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

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Supposing That, Truth Is, Supposing
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.192, Modern Library

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

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Atheism, Weapons, Sin
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.56, Friederich Nietzsche

This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

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Beautiful, Courage, Warrior

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

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Animal, World, Knows

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

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Winning, Opportunity, Giving

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

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Evening
Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.95, Oxford University Press

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

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Men, Mountain, Lines

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

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Women, Forget You, Forget

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

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Hope, Awkward, Modesty

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

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Men, Choices, Climate

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

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Letting Go, Men, People
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.164, Modern Library

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

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Resistance, Charm, Obvious

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

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Existentialism, Ifs
Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.72, Penguin UK

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

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Truth, Knowledge, Reality
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.31, Friedrich Nietzsche

Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

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Lying, Doe, Likes

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

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Morning, Pride, Life Is Hard

We can destroy only as creators

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Creator
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.122, Vintage

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

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Hands, Looks, Thirds
Friedrich Nietzsche (1998). “Twilight of the Idols”, OUP Oxford

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

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Bridges, Rainbow, Lovely
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.202, Penguin

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

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Fear, Men, Land
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.79, Vintage

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

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Truth, Ocean, Doe
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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